Items Tagged with 'pesticides'

Farmers have long played a part in bringing new seeds and other technologies to market by trying things out on a small scale before a company makes a new product widely available. But now some ag tech start-ups are leveraging the knowledge and creativity of farmers to engage them earlier and more broadly in new product development.

Eighteen pesticides have deadlines coming up in the European Union for companies to submit applications for renewed regulatory approval, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service said in its latest update on plant protection products (PPPs) in the EU.

European farm groups were already concerned the EU’s Farm to Fork plan would slash production levels across the bloc of 27 countries, but now they fear that the European Parliament will make the situation worse.

Climate change has already increased the overwintering range of a destructive pest, increasing its resistance to insecticides, and the situation is projected to get worse in the coming decades, new research shows.